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Understanding Hiroshima
Over 200,000 people, dying in one small period of time is quite a large number considering it would grow for many years to come. The number this is referring to is the amount of people died during the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the radiation effects from them. Not everyone completely understood what happened that early August 6th morning in 1945 when the United States attempted to force Japan to surrender by heavy force, but an editor by the name of Michael Hogan decided to put together a book consisting of nine essays to explain different angles of the situation which is titled “Hiroshima in History and Memory”. The topics ranged from the American decision to the drop of the first atomic bomb to the recent controversy over the Enola Gay exhibit in Washington, D.C.
The book opens when Hogan writes his first essay which surveys the literature on the atomic bombing of Japan and introduces the historical context of the bomb and the......

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